David Akadjian

Author: The Little Book of Revolution.

[Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh]

Vivek doesn’t care about Ohio - he’s only out for himself. I've called on him to divest his individual stocks and data center investments, but he refuses so he can keep cashing in. I sold all of my individual stocks six months ago so Ohioans never have to wonder where my loyalties lie. I will always put Ohio first, not billionaires, corporations and special interests.

Read my full op-ed now: https://t.co/XWrMSToIL4

[David Akadjian @akadjian]

@TrumanDoc Hasn’t 16 years of Republican rule brought us potholes, property taxes, and $600 million for a new Browns stadium?

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

It really is amazing - and telling - that Susan Collins was caught in a massive bribery scandal and no one in establishment media cares.

They investigated every five minute block of Graham Platner's life. But they won't touch Susan Collins, who gave away tens of millions of dollars of our money to people who donated to her and her Super Pac. That's a direct robbery of the American people. The FBI has all the evidence. And the media won't report on it!

Mainstream media loves bribery - and actively tries to cover it up so no one finds out about it. Why? Because they are the top beneficiary of this corruption. Almost all the money politicians get through these bribes goes in to ... ads on mainstream media.

The national media makes billions from this system of corruption, so their main job is not to inform you, it's to do the exact opposite. Their job is to make sure you remain blind to what's making everyone in Washignton rich - at our expense.

[David Akadjian @akadjian]

@ChrisCillizza Is this a joke?

[David DeWitt @DC_DeWitt]

Commentary: The Republican party of Ohio has dominated state government for the past thirty years. Let's look at the job they have done in managing the state. The results may shock you https://t.co/6eGLOMcEi7

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Exactly

[David Akadjian @akadjian]

@marcellstrbich Looks more like desperation

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

.@JonHusted, here is a video of you voting against every Iran War Powers Resolution.

You have had 13 chances to oppose the war, but you voted with Trump every single time. You and your party are the reason diesel is $6.82/gal in Ohio.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

They shut down the Legislative Branch of the United States of America because I was outmaneuvering the Speaker to expose a global sex trafficking ring and impeach a rogue cabinet secretary.

It was the only way they could stop me.

[Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman]

Really great to see this: six Nobel Prize-winning economists (Duflo, Krugman, Diamond, Banerjee, Acemoglu and Stiglitz) just came out in favor of the California billionaire tax.

You don't have to be a radical leftist to see why it's a good idea. First, look at the numbers: ten years ago, the richest 0.001% of Californians were worth $700 billion. Today, that same group (about 250 people) is worth $2.3 trillion.

From 2019 to 2025, their wealth grew by $1.4 trillion. The California income tax they paid over that period was just 1.6% of that gain. A nurse or a plumber pays a higher state tax rate.

Yes, many of these people built great companies, and they've made a lot of money in the process. Good for them! The problem is that wealth on this scale stops being just money. It becomes extraordinary power.

In 2000, billionaires accounted for about 1% of all donations in federal elections. In 2024, it was 19%. The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the LA Times, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and the platform you're reading this on: all owned and controlled by billionaires.

Now add AI. If you think power is concentrated now, just wait five years. It's going to get much worse.

So, what does Prop 40 actually do? It's a one-time 5% tax on the wealth of California's billionaires. That would raise about $100 billion, enough to offset the federal Medicaid cuts.

"But they'll all leave!" the critics say. Nope, they can't. The tax applies to any billionaire who lived in California on January 1, 2026, and the initiative only became public about five weeks before that.

"But it'll kill Silicon Valley!" Uh no, that won't happen either. Since the tax was announced, California's share of all new US venture capital has gone up, from about 50% to 80%. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who would be one of the biggest payers, said he would be "perfectly fine" with it and had "not even thought about it once".

Sure, some other billionaires can't stop thinking about it. Sergey Brin has already spent more than $100 million to defeat the proposal. At a holiday party in December he pulled Gavin Newson aside and said 'he could not stand the state’s proposed billionaire tax', because he thought the 5% tax would turn California into some kind of Soviet Union.

That is, of course, nonsense. This is not going to be some kind of socialist revolution. The proposal is about restoring balance to a mixed economy. You could even argue it's about saving capitalism itself from oligarchs like Sergey Brin. I think that's exactly why Nobel Prize-winning economists are coming out in favor of this tax.

If Prop 40 passes in November, it will be the first tax aimed specifically at billionaire wealth anywhere in the world. I think it could be the start of a global movement.

Anyway, read the whole letter here. It's really good 👇 https://t.co/cFUtgzfoLy

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Trump’s racist and lying tirade against Angie Nixon tells you one thing. They're EXTREMELY worried she’s going to win.

And they should be scared because, with your help, she WILL win.

I look forward to campaigning with Angie and our friends in Florida in the very near future.

[Sherrod Brown @SherrodBrown]

Jon Husted is at the center of the biggest corruption scandal in Ohio history.

He fought for a billion-dollar bailout for FirstEnergy using your tax dollars, now you’re paying more on your utility bills.

[David Pepper @DavidPepper]

People ask me this all the time, and it’s the right question.

Why would billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, who has never done any public service (except DOGE, from which he was fired), moved his business and jobs to Texas, declares that Ohio isn’t the best state, won't even drive our roads, has an out-of-state area code, and thinks Ohioans are lazy and mediocre and envious of his riches, run to be Governor of Ohio?

To help everyday Ohioans? To protect our communities from his billionaire class and their big investments? To end the corruption? To lower the costs everyday Ohioans face as the big shots buy off the politicians and make out like bandits?

Of course not.

And why would a billionaire like Musk, with no ties to Ohio, support this guy and ads smearing his opponent?

To help everyday Ohioans? To protect our communities from his billionaire class? To lower costs?

Of course not.

It’s to keep selling Ohio and its assets off for parts to the billionaire class.

While we suffer the consequences of failing outcomes and higher costs.

This isn’t complicated, folks.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Financial disclosures have revealed that Ohio Republican Gov. nominee Vivek Ramaswamy owns holdings in every component of data center construction.

Ramaswamy would stand to profit from his campaign promise to ramp up data center construction, if elected governor.

[Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh]

Proof you can't buy Ohio.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

You have a better chance of seeing Mitch McConnell alive than getting a $5,000 check from Donald Trump.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

The moment a new law makes explicitly clear @DarioAmodei, @sama & @elonmusk will go to jail & be bankrupted if their AI systems get out of control & harm people, their companies will instantly make AI safer.

Money in politics is the reason there hasn’t yet been that new law.

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

The Republican Party has a serious Nazi problem.

[TiffinOhio.net @TiffinOhioNews]

BREAKING: An overseas political-content operation is offering extra money for favorable videos about Vivek Ramaswamy while instructing participants to conceal that they are posting from outside the United States, according to a new investigation. Read more: https://t.co/iPjbD75rdy

[David Pepper @DavidPepper]

Vivek Ramaswamy “pumped and dumped” an Alzheimer’s drug that he knew didn’t work, leaving desperate Ohio families broke and hopeless while he made off with hundreds of millions of dollars.

He is a scam artist.